Notions of the Program in 1960s Art – Concrete

25. April 2016, 11.15 Uhr Interface Culture Lecture Room, Kollegiumgasse 2, 3.OG

Computer-generated and Conceptual Artcase study: [New] Tendencies (1961 - 1973)

Interface Cultures lädt zum Gastvortrag von Darko Fritz im Rahmen der Interface Lectures Series.

Several tendencies of art of 1960s that are at the first sight completely different and excluding each other can be viewed throughout the notions of the program. The first discourse toward the notion of the program in art we can find in Concrete / Neo-constructivist / Luminokinetic art and alike, second discourse in Computer-generated art and third in Conceptual art. At the time being in 1960s almost no communication was established between mentioned three ways of artistic practices and related theories. Very few exhibitions were presented those kinds of works together back in the time of its production. Tendencies 5 exhibition in Zagreb in 1973 is the unique example in art history that connected and presented those three frames of art under the same roof – being those of Concrete, Computer and Conceptual art. It is worth looking more closely at the term “programmed art”. We’ll use the New Tendencies as the case study.

Darko Fritz
Since the late 1980s, the work of artist, curator and researcher Darko Fritz has revolved around a significant investigation into the use of technology in culture. His curatorial work and research on New Tendencies and early computer art has earned international acclaim with exhibitions at Neue Galerie, Graz (2007), ZKM, Karlsruhe (2009) and Akbank, Istanbul (2014). In 2010 he started the research "The beginning of digital arts in the Netherlands (1955 - 1980)", awarded by grants by Mondriaan Fonds. Fritz is founder and programmer of the grey) (area – space for contemporary and media art since 2006.
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